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DESCRIPTION:Featuring live call-in via telephone from student strikers at the 
 University of Puerto Rico\n\nThe students of the public university system 
 in Puerto Rico are starting their fifth week of striking against cuts to 
 public education. Many of the demands and issues they are fighting for are 
 the same ones we have mobilized around in the fight to defend and expand 
 public education in California.\n\nThese students are supported by workers 
 organized by independent unions (C.P.T./Confederation of Puerto Rican 
 Workers), Coordinadora Sindical and the AFL-CIO in the island 
 nation.\n\nThey have been affected by the wave of privatization and 
 cutbacks that globalization has brought on the workers and youth of the 
 world. Over $100 million in funding has been cut from the University of 
 Puerto Rico alone. This is part of a privatization drive that U.S. 
 corporations and the colonial government are implementing, having already 
 slashed close to 80,000 jobs in the public sector.\n\nAs colonized people 
 of the United States, young Puerto Rican men and women are being attacked 
 by the same government leaders who are waging imperialist wars of 
 aggression against Iraq and Afghanistan.\n\nCome to support these strikers 
 and demand that the governor of Puerto Rico and the UPR administration stop 
 their repression and intimidation of this critical struggle. Also learn 
 more about the historic fight to end the U.S. occupation of Puerto Rico and 
 recognize the right of self-determination and independence for Puerto 
 Rico.\n\nEndorsed by the Student Worker Action Team; Campus Radical Women; 
 Freedom Socialist Party; Richard Mellor, member, Labor’s Militant Voice 
 and retired AFSCME 444; Jack Heyman, member ILWU, Local 10; and 
 others—everyone welcome! \n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/05/26/18648945.php
SUMMARY:Solidarity Picket for Puerto Rican Students
LOCATION:Bancroft and Telegraph Streets, UC Berkeley campus
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/05/26/18648945.php
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